matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. — Moliere Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are:… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image